LXer
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LXer Linux News is an international independent news and opinion source serving the free and open source software community.
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[edit] Origin
Founded in 2004 by Dave Whitinger, who also founded Linux Today, LXer is currently run by his father Bob Whitinger [1].
[edit] FOSS Sponsorship
LXer is an active sponsor for FOSS conventions, including LISA 08 [2] and SCaLE 08 [3].
LXer also provided coverage for T-DOSE 2007 [4] and again in 2008 [5].
LXer provided coverage of 25 different sessions [6] for FOSDEM 2009 [7].
[edit] Readership
LXer is a Linux news and opinion site accepting moderated comments, and contributing weekly editorials. Current monthly access includes 450,000 unique hits from over 165 countries. LXer content is syndicated by Google[8] and picked up as single source RSS feed from community news websites[9].